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Gunman is at large after 10 are killed at dance studio in city near Los Angeles
A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect.

Police were at the scene of the shooting in Monterey Park, Calif., early Sunday morning.

See photos from the scene of the Los Angeles-area shooting

After Brian Walshe, should Google warn police of an impending murder?
In theory, a search engine like Google might flag potentially scary search terms, just as social media companies like Facebook and Twitter flag threats of violence. But in practice, this just isn’t done.

More coverage of the Ana Walshe case

Kevin McCarthy, Ben Affleck, and the debt limit: how the 2011 showdown informs the latest fight
This time around, McCarthy moves to center stage as House speaker, a job he narrowly won by promising far-right lawmakers he would not agree to a debt limit increase unless it was paired with significant fiscal reforms.

Biden should be ‘embarrassed’ by classified documents case, Democrats say

Senior Democrats expressed criticism Sunday of how President Biden handled classified material found at his Delaware home and disappointment that the White House has not been more forthcoming with the public.

Justice Department search of Biden home in Delaware turns up more documents

Man, 29, charged with attempted murder after Fall River shooting that wounded 60-year-old

Man, 21, dies in skiing accident at Cannon Mountain in N.H.

Don’t make the Medicare mistake that this couple made. It cost them dearly.

Alan Cregg turned 65 three years ago and signed up for Medicare Part A, which covers hospitalizations and costs nothing. But he didn’t sign up for Part B, which covers doctors appointments and outpatient care.

Baker tapped nearly 170 for state boards and panels during his final weeks in office
The slew of 11th-hour appointees Charlie Baker made include his former chief of staff, a high-ranking Republican Party official, and two former GOP state representatives whose terms were ending.

DEVRA FIRST

Times change, and restaurants should, too. So what does that mean for fine dining?
People keep asking if high-end restaurants are dead, but it’s the wrong question. Here’s a better one for these times: What's our definition of “fine dining”?

Aubrey Plaza attends the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles, California.

Aubrey Plaza, Amy Poehler reprise ‘Parks and Recreation’ roles on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Plaza and Poehler appeared as April Ludgate and Leslie Knope on “Weekend Update” to discuss working for local government. Meanwhile, Sam Smith was the night's musical guest.

Sherri Covell, a supervisor for Ice Castles, walked through the structures, which are still under construction.

A dad, a hose, some snow, and the magic of taking a joke too far

What started with a dad trying to entertain his kids with some snow forts in the yard has become the Ice Castles, a winter blockbuster in New Hampshire that is about to unveil its latest addition: a bar.

The cozy outdoor patio at the Ashmont Grill in Dorchester.

Ashmont Grill in Dorchester is closing

Opened in 2005, the restaurant has been a gathering spot for the whole community.

Scenes from the Seaport, the Financial District, and Back Bay in Boston.

Why ‘how downtown Boston is recovering’ depends on which downtown you’re talking about

The divergent tracks of Boston’s three downtowns — Back Bay, the Financial District, and the Seaport — highlight the ways that neighborhoods are evolving as the pandemic eases.

Opinion

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and extremist Republicans are running a con game. They claim their plan to use the debt ceiling to trigger global economic chaos is about fiscal responsibility. It’s not.

Elizabeth Warren

The Republican con on the debt ceiling

The House Republican plan for the debt ceiling is about protecting the wealthy and the well-connected from paying their fair share in taxes — nothing more and nothing less.

For public school teachers, there can be no right to strike

No more excuses. Cambridge police should use body cameras.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The ongoing disgrace over the Trump-era family separation policy

IDEAS | STEPHEN ASMA

A way out of the campus free speech wars

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The Emancipator

Talking to your kids about race

What are we saying to our kids about race even when we don’t say anything? Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, explains how it is a false choice whether or not to teach your young child about race, because, either way, they’re picking up on your attitude about race.

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Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

The 2022 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

More recent News

Thomas F. Birmingham, former state Senate president, dies at 73
"I love this business," he said of politics in 1997, while serving as Senate president.

Shelburne Museum hires curator of Native American Art
Victoria Sunnergren, whose title will be associate curator of Native American art, will open her first exhibition at the museum on June 24: “Built from the Earth: Pueblo Pottery from the Anthony and Teressa Perry Collection.”

Biden is expected to pick Jeff Zients as his next chief of staff
Jeff Zients ran the administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of President Biden’s term, and he is expected to replace Ron Klain as White House chief of staff.

LOVE LETTERS

Do we take a leap of faith?
We reconnected through Facebook and fell in love.

‘Holding on by its fingernails.’ The biotech industry in Massachusetts braces for another tough year.
Biotech acquisitions, funding, public offerings, and stock prices fell in 2022, sending small companies into survival mode — and hoping for an economic turnaround.

Beverly has built a lot of new housing lately. Now some there say it’s time to slow down.
City officials are mulling a tighter cap on new building heights after a wave of development in the North Shore city.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll held a press conference after meeting for the first time with Senate President Karen E. Spilka and House Speaker Ronald J. Mariano since their swearing in.

Beacon Hill has a new ‘Big Three.’ How they work together can make or break the State House.

The three Democrats — Governor Maura Healey, Senate President Karen Spilka, and House Speaker Ronald Mariano — are launching a new era of Beacon Hill’s Big Three with distinct agendas, styles, and personalities.

No sign of missing Brookfield woman after investigators search 250 acres near her home
The search for Tee remains a missing person’s case, according to Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.

Violent protest in downtown Atlanta over killing of activist
A protest turned violent in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an environmental activist who was killed by authorities this week after officials said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper.

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Traveling while old(er)*
Worries are infinite. Time is not. If you want to travel, just start. Here's what this traveler has learned about life, loss, and the joy of just getting out there.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Pierre Jean Gonzalez portrays Alexander Hamilton in "Hamilton."

Does ‘Hamilton’ still have it? Just you wait.

Oscar statues are pictured at the 2020 Governors Ball Press Preview for the 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Oscar nominations drop Jan. 24. Here’s who we think will get lucky.

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Jan. 19. The show featuring guest soloist violinist Nicola Benedetti repeats Saturday.

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis weaves clarity, control, and balance at the BSO

LaTasha Barnes (center) and members of her dance company during a performance of "The Jazz Continuum."

LaTasha Barnes’s ‘The Jazz Continuum’ can’t stop moving

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Abortion opponents at the March for Life on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2022.

Abortion foes push on post-Roe, and so must those protecting reproductive rights

The 20-foot-high bronze sculpture is a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Boston Common.

Embracing ‘The Embrace’

Former Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth.

Harvard’s welcome reversal on Kenneth Roth

My favorite George Santos depredation is his apparently brief 2019 masquerade as “Anthony Devolder” — his full name seems to George Anthony Devolder Santos. Devolder urged transgender activists to consider switching their loyalty from Democrats to Republicans.

George Santos proves that two identities can be better than one

The parking lot at 371 D Street.

6.2 acres of potential in the Seaport

Sidetrack students find a piece of machinery in an abandoned building on the Boston waterfront while exploring the city.

IDEAS | PETER THOMSON

The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life

Metro

Their father is accused of killing their mother. What happens to the three young boys?

The three young boys of Brian and Ana Walshe have lost their mother, allegedly by their father’s hand. Many wonder who will care for the children, none older than 6, amid such significant loss.

How many sexual assaults are reported in BPS? The answer is murky. Here’s why.

In district documents, BPS defines sexual misconduct as “sexually inappropriate comments and/or behaviors of any kind.”

Man, 29, charged with attempted murder after Fall River shooting that wounded 60-year-old

Armando Rivera Angulo, 29, was arrested after he allegedly fired shots at the victim, hitting him three times, police said.

Mass. man charged with DUI in New Hampshire after allegedly driving wrong way on I-393

Hunter R. Dusio, 23, of Somerset, was charged with aggravated driving while under the influence, reckless conduct, and reckless operation, officials said.

Sports

Against Barbora Krejcikova, Jessica Pegula (left) continued to dominate games served by the opponent, improving to winning a tournament-high 64 percent of those games.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Third-seeded American Jessica Pegula one win away from first Grand Slam semifinal appearance

After beating Barbora Krejcikova 7-5, 6-2 in the fourth round, Pegula will play two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals.

When Ime Udoka was coaching the Celtics last season, Damon Stoudamire (seated to the left but partially obscured) was right there with him at the bench as an assistant.

‘It can get overwhelming’ — Damon Stoudamire describes how friend Ime Udoka is handling his Celtics suspension

To the Celtics assistant coach, Udoka's well-being is what matters most. “You’re talking about a relationship that dates back 30 years,” Stoudamire said.

Hayden Hurst and the Bengals got over the snow — and Buffalo's Jaquan Johnson — with relative ease Sunday in Orchard Park, N.Y., building a 14-0 lead in the first quarter on the way to another AFC Championship game.

AFC DIVISIONAL ROUND | BENGALS 27, BILLS 10

Bengals, not the Bills, prove the juggernaut with dominant show in the snow

The injury-hammered Cincinnati offensive line allowed only one sack and Joe Burrow took advantage, his offense racking up 30 first downs and more than 400 yards to set up a rematch with Kansas City.

around the horn | outfield

Red Sox bring in help in an attempt to bolster offensively and defensively challenged outfield

MSTCA DIVISION 2 STATE TRACK RELAYS

Wellesley girls’ attention to detail pays off with MSTCA Division 2 Relays title, while North Andover boys claim fourth in a row

AP: Patrick Mahomes sustained high ankle sprain Saturday, expects to lead Chiefs in AFC title game

Business

Sam Trabucco, a Roxbury Latin and MIT grad, got rich trading crypto. Now he’s the odd man out in the FTX saga.

Trabucco got out soon before Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire imploded in November, in a saga that’s led to bankruptcy proceedings and criminal charges.

After Brian Walshe, should Google warn police of an impending murder?

In theory, a search engine like Google might flag potentially scary search terms, just as social media companies like Facebook and Twitter flag threats of violence. But in practice, this just isn’t done.

Don’t make the Medicare mistake that this couple made. It cost them dearly.

Biden is expected to pick Jeff Zients as his next chief of staff

magazine

What I didn’t know about having a miscarriage

Globe Magazine.

The struggle to communicate with potential dates in text messages is real

Advice: My sister is messing up my relationship with my parents

Herbed Omelet With Tomatoes and Blue Cheese

Three perfect omelet recipes to get your day started right

metro

Sherri Covell, a supervisor for Ice Castles, walked through the structures, which are still under construction.

A dad, a hose, some snow, and the magic of taking a joke too far

Baker tapped nearly 170 for state boards and panels during his final weeks in office

Roxbury Community College names 50 ‘pioneers’ to celebrate 50th anniversary

sports

Sammy Davis, pictured here in 2021, took a costly tripping penalty for the Pride in OT on Sunday.

Jade Downie-Landry’s overtime winner sinks Boston Pride as Montreal Force earn split

Former All-Star third baseman Sal Bando dies at 78

Wheelchair tennis ace Shingo Kunieda retires

business

Scenes from the Seaport, the Financial District, and Back Bay in Boston.

Why ‘how downtown Boston is recovering’ depends on which downtown you’re talking about

‘Holding on by its fingernails.’ The biotech industry in Massachusetts braces for another tough year.

In soaked California, few homeowners have flood insurance

politics

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about reproductive rights on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, in Tallahassee, Fla., on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023.

‘We are on the right side of history,’ Harris says on Roe’s 50th anniversary

The December omnibus bill’s little secret: It was also a giant health bill

Women’s March plans nationwide rallies on Sunday for 50th anniversary of Roe

Nation

Randall Park, left, director of "Shortcomings," expressed condolences for the victims of Saturday night's mass shooting in Monterey Park, Calif., as he introduced his film at Eccles Theatre during the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, in Park City, Utah.

Cast of “Shortcomings” addresses Monterey Park shooting at Sundance premiere

The list of US mass shootings continues to grow

Florida gives reasons for rejecting AP African American studies class

World

A Spanish policeman stood guard next to the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid in December. An employee there was injured when a package mailed to the embassy exploded.

Russian agents suspected of directing far-right group to mail bombs in Spain

Israel’s Netanyahu fires Cabinet ally, heeding court ruling

In a nation that nearly wiped out cholera, the disease is surging back

opinion

The campus of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn. Art history lecturer Erika López Prater lost her job after she showed an image of the Prophet Muhammad in class. She had warned students the image would be shown and gave them an opportunity to leave.

A way out of the campus free speech wars

The case for term limits is not as strong as some might think

Small group has stood in way of Nantucket erosion control project

lifestyle

Do we take a leap of faith?

Should I tell my friend how I feel — before her wedding?

Kim Kardashian speaks at Harvard Business School, checks out ‘The Embrace’ in Boston

food & dining

The cozy outdoor patio at the Ashmont Grill in Dorchester.

Ashmont Grill in Dorchester is closing

Times change, and restaurants should, too. So what does that mean for fine dining?

At El Peñol, an American dream realized

travel

Jeff and Jane model the dorky look.

New gear for new priorities

Traveling while old(er)*

With a hurricane on the way, are these tickets now worthless?

Arts

Victoria Sunnergren is the Shelburne Museum's first associate curator of Native American art.

Shelburne Museum hires curator of Native American Art

At the MFA, ‘Hear Me Now’ tells the story of enslaved Black potters

10-plus eye-catching art exhibitions from Boston to the Berkshires to Portland

Books

A fragile island community faces destruction in Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’

In Selby Wynn Schwartz’s ‘After Sappho,’ long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize, the Greek poet empowers women artists to push against traditional boundaries

Jayne Ann Krentz on her love of contemporary gothic and what was missing from Nancy Drew

Movies

Jennifer Coolidge, winner of the best supporting actress in a drama series for "The White Lotus," poses in the press room during the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on Jan. 15, 2023 in Los Angeles.

‘Hiiii.’ Jennifer Coolidge joins TikTok, recites JLo ‘poem’

Another Boston movie theater could soon turn off the projectors

The sins of ‘The Son’

Television

Aubrey Plaza attends the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles, California.

Aubrey Plaza, Amy Poehler reprise ‘Parks and Recreation’ roles on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Adam Sandler tapped for Mark Twain Prize

Kim Kardashian speaks at Harvard Business School, checks out ‘The Embrace’ in Boston

music

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Jan. 19. The show featuring guest soloist violinist Nicola Benedetti repeats Saturday.

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis weaves clarity, control, and balance at the BSO

New England Philharmonic music director Tianhui Ng shares music through ‘human stories’

Aoife O’Donovan traverses the sparse terrain of Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’

Theater/Dance

Compagnie Hervé Koubi performing “Ce qui le jour doit à la nuit” (“What the Day Owes to the Night”) at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Hervé Koubi revisits his Algerian roots at the Majestic

LaTasha Barnes’s ‘The Jazz Continuum’ can’t stop moving

A creator of experimental theater steps anxiously into the spotlight with ‘Made in China 2.0’

globe local

Skiers take to the slopes at Ski Bradford as a snowmaker makes snow behind them.

Quick getaways to the slopes

The Argument: Should Massachusetts give public school teachers the right to strike?

Two little girls laughing until someone told us to stop

Obituaries

Dr. Allis received the Japan Prize in 2014 for his work on the "discovery of histone modifications as fundamental regulators of gene expression."

David Allis, researcher who explored ‘on-off’ switch in genes, dies at 71

Former All-Star third baseman Sal Bando dies at 78

Gwen Knapp, sports writer who looked at the big picture, dies at 61